What's up with Win 7?

[Anarchist420]

What can I do to revert back to the way it was 2 months ago without reduce security? Should I upgrade to Win 8 or do something else?

I swear with all of these updates things are changing a little too much. I don't want to think it is my hardware at all, although it may be some of it. I just hope I'm not losing data.

It was probably never even necessary to go past DOS IMO. It treated each application and device like it was its own application and its own device and as long as you knew the commands then it was fine. You had to get creative with it sometimes too, but it was really a lot better than the beast that Windows is. I guess it may have been designed to be like 4 different windows.

Anyway, this is an example of patents keeping companies like MS in business and the govt used Linux all for itself. Unix was better than the monarchial Apple and the republican Microsoft. Microsoft seems a little better because at least did teach us that federalism gets out of hand while Apple seems like they just did what Steve Jobs wanted.

It's making me so mad that Microsoft and Apple are about to fail and I hope they do along with AMD and nvidia... I just hate paying above market prices and when they try to emulate the state, I don't like it. I often love meeting new people, but if it ain't broke, then don't replace it (I don't like how MS got a state-sponsored monopoly so they wouldn't have to do DOS and windows). I'd love for SGI to regroup as well as the creators of the legendary Motorola MC68000. Intel needs the bad ideas to make good ones in part because of patents. Take away the patents and they couldn't go back and forth from things like Pentium D to Core 2 Duo, then Sandy to Ivy... they've gotten better than any of the other four, but I hope the market eats all the statist institutions alive some day.

Disclaimer: The rant didn't do any global net good, but I didn't violate the NAP so I'm glad and happy I got it out.
Claim: I did ask at least two questions in this thread, so any answers are welcome Let me know what you think about my rant also. Was it retarded, half retarded or something else?

 

[lxskllr]

I have no idea what your rant is about. If you want more control, use GNU/Linux. If not, strap in, and go along with MS for the ride.

 

[JackMDS]

You can configure the Updates like this,

Then look at the list of the Updates and uncheck whatever you do not like and the ones that are hardware related.

It was probably never even necessary to go past DOS IMO.

It might be that you are totally right from your personal perspective.

However there are many Millions of people that think that Win 7 is much more capable and productive than DOS.

So if you still are missing DOS "productivity" ( ) you can load this on your computer too, http://www.freedos.org/

 

[corkyg]

Restate your 2 questions as two simple bullets. Searching for them in all that verbiage is not fun.

OK - I think I found them:

1. What can I do to revert back to the way it was 2 months ago without reduce security? Try a system restore to a date 2 months ago.

2. Should I upgrade to Win 8 or do something else? That's a personal choice. Personally I do not consider Win 8 an upgrade. Something else? Perhaps a repair install of 7? Maybe convert to a Linux distro?

 

[Anarchist420]

Maybe convert to a Linux distro?

What is a distro?

I'd love to switch to some form of Linux, but none of them are as compatible/accurate as Windows since Linux isn't the native platform for a lot of things. In some cases I may not notice, but in others I will. Open Source is taking off so I may try it to help out open source and because Win 8 may not take off. Things can start as closed source to get off the ground, but MS products is nearly completely closed source.

1. What can I do to revert back to the way it was 2 months ago without reduce security? Try a system restore to a date 2 months ago.

Thanks even though I probably should try something else above what you posted

Then look at the list of the Updates and uncheck whatever you do not like and the ones that are hardware related.

Thanks. I wish that "security" updates didn't include interface updates, but I guess it is necessary for now to shift things around to slow hackers down. However, the hackers are going to beat microsoft eventually. I use Firefox and never even use IE so are any security updates even necessary? How do I know which ones are best to update?

I suppose I could keep wiser backups like uploading files, especially smaller ones to mediafire. I can always reformat without issues unless my backups were infected and if they infect new installations. Then there may be code that can infect the PC and really damage a sector of the HDD. Finally, I'm not thinking about all the possibilities, but I appreciate computers despite a few quirks they have.

 

[Binky]

Stupid question time - why is "the way it was 2 months ago" better than today? All of my Win7 machines look pretty much the same as they did 2 months ago.

Maybe, just maybe, any issues you are having are unrelated to windows updates. It's impossible to tell, however, since you gave no actual details.

 

[Anarchist420]

Don't worry about this, I figured it out. I was really only having two issues and the first was that things wouldn't stay organized by date how I wanted them to... the 2nd issue is slowness when I search. I have indexing checked and turned on for each HDD. See Anarchist420's thread in AT memory and storage.

 

[Anteaus]

So an issue about search slowness and file organization was enough to have you have a major existential breakdown as to the role recent Microsoft GUI operating systems in general compared to....DOS? I'd hate to see what would happen if your system doesn't post one day. Perhaps a dictation on how the current boot loader is the victim of years of patent trolling and how DOS had the most elegant solution.....3.5" floppy boot disks to bail you out of any problem.

Lol I'm just messing with you. I understand your frustration but remember that on a bad day Windows 7 is the best MS OS we've had for many years and usually if there is a problem it's not in the core design. I'd dare say that I'm a bit more productive on Win 7 than I ever was on DOS.

Next time you have a problem like this, take a deep breath and have a cookie. You're gonna give yourself a stroke if you treat every issue like it's the product of 20 years of misguided software development.

Except for Windows MS. That thing truly was the demon spawn.

 

[Anarchist420]

Lol I'm just messing with you. I understand your frustration but remember that on a bad day Windows 7 is the best MS OS we've had for many years and usually if there is a problem it's not in the core design. I'd dare say that I'm a bit more productive on Win 7 than I ever was on DOS.

I understood that and I liked it

You're right about Win 7 being more productive and it is better than vista and I've liked it more than XP even though it has too many quirks that it shouldn't have (some of which are nvidia's fault, but ultimately microsoft's fault for trying to integrate everything). The fact that I liked DOS better shows how much of a consumer I am. Perhaps they should have a storage based operating system along with a unitary operating system. DOS was what I grew up on though... on a POS Dell with a 486 (I want to say DX4 100), originally 1MB of system RAM, a Creative Labs CDROM drive, a SB16 sound card, but it had a pretty sweet VGA graphics card... an excellent video output signal although the SB16 audio signal was very poor. I'd guess that the PSU and cooling sucked.

We could never get that thing functional, maybe it was because we bought it from sam's club maybe because it was the first PC of our household maybe my dad and I didn't really know what we were doing. However, I understand a little bit better today why it sucked today now that I build my own.

Thanks for your reply